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		<h2>The Bouncy Castle Cryptographic C#&reg; API</h2>
		<p>
Holders of <a href="https://www.keyfactor.com/platform/bouncy-castle-support/">Crypto Workshop Support Contracts</a>. Without the consulting time left over from support contracts being contributed back to working on the Bouncy Castle APIs, progress would be impossible. You know who you are!
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		<h3>Donors</h3>
                <p>
                The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.9:
                <br />&nbsp;<br />
                loligans and Encryptomatic LLC
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		<p>
                The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.8:
                <br />&nbsp;<br />
                jey4554, Manual Corona, and Encryptomatic LLC
                </p>
		<p>
		The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.5:
		<br />&nbsp;<br />
		Pharylon
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		<p>
		The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8:
		<br />&nbsp;<br />
		Andrew Grosser, Antonio Royo, dmitry.ribakov&#64gmail.com, PhreePhly, and encryptomatic.com.
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		<h3>Code Contributors:</h3>
		<p>The following organisations and people have contributed to the C# Bouncy Castle Cryptography 
			Package.</p>
		<p>Thanks, may your castles never deflate!</p>
		<p>Contributors - Organisations.<p>
		<ul>
<li>
Monash University, Cyber Security Lab, under the supervision of A. Prof. Ron Steinfeld, Dr. Amin Sakzad, and Dr. Raymond K. Zhao
for contributions to the NIST post-quantum algorithm set. Initial NTRU Prime implementation: Yuki Kume. Initial Falcon implementation: Zi Li Tan. Initial NTRU implementation: Akbar Fadiansyah and Yuki Kume. Initial CRYSTALS-Kyber implementation: Salang Kang. Initial CRYSTALS-Dilithium implementation: Salang Kang.
</li>
<li>
University of Wollongong, Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, under the supervision of Dr Dung Duong &lt;hduong&#64uow.edu.au&gt; for contributions to the NIST post-quantum algorithm set. Initial BIKE implementation: Tuong Ngoc Nguyen &lt;tuong.nguyenng&#64gmail.com&gt;, Xuan Thanh Khuc &lt;khucxuanthanh&#64gmail.com&gt;, and Khanh Nguyen &lt;tungkhanhmta&#64gmail.com&gt;. Initial HQC implementation: Tuong Ngoc Nguyen &lt;tuong.nguyenng&#64gmail.com&gt;, Xuan Thanh Khuc &lt;khucxuanthanh&#64gmail.com&gt;, and Khanh Nguyen &lt;tungkhanhmta&#64gmail.com&gt;. 
</li>
		</ul>
		<p>Contributors - People</p>
		<ul>
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				<p>Kaiser Yang &lt;kaiseryang&#064yahoo.com&gt; - initial port of the lightweight 
					API and ASN.1 library. Finding BigInteger loop problem.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Asier Murciego &lt;a.murciego&#064captiva-sys.es&gt; - Further patching to 
					BigInteger library.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Megan Woods &lt;megan.woods&#064widestreet.com.au&gt; - X509 certificate 
					generation, RSA/DSA digest signature classes.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>David Del Vecchio &lt;ddelvecc&#064virginia.edu&gt; - patches to RSA Pkcs1 
					Signature generation OID issues, help with clarifications on DateTime and 
					certificates.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Nelson Fernandez &lt;nelson-bc&#064kpanic.com.ar&gt; - patches to allow 
					compilation under mono.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Paulo Soares &lt;psoares&#064consiste.pt&gt; - patches to X509CertificateParser, 
					C# port of JZlib plus inflater/deflater streams, C# port of Apache BZip2 
					classes.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Pawel Niewiadomski &lt;11110000b&#064gmail.com&gt; - patches for X509 and CMS, 
					unit test for time classes.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Jesper Johansen &lt;jesper&#064hc.jay.net&gt; - bug fix for DerT61String 
					encodings.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Adam Sternberg &lt;agsternberg&#064gmail.com&gt; - identified problem with 
					generation of PGP public keyrings.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Kirill Zhuklinets &lt;zhuklinets_k&#064gaz-is.ru&gt; - initial submission of 
					bulk of Asn1.Esf classes (RFC 3126).</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Dr Andrew Gray &lt;andrew.gray&#064rcrt.co.uk&gt; - identified problem with 
					BigInteger.ModPow for negative exponents.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Mauricio Ulate &lt;mulate&#064gmail.com&gt; - identified problem with non-ASCII 
					pass phrases in PGP.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>John Allberg &lt;John.Allberg&#064teliasonera.com&gt; - initial implementation 
					of CryptoApiRandomGenerator.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Mattias &Ouml;hrn &lt;mattias.ohrn&#064gmail.com&gt; - identified problem with 
					Pkcs12Store.Save and provided fix.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Jen Andre &lt;jandre&#064gmail.com&gt; - initial implementation of 
					case-insensitive searches for PGP keyrings.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>#Cyrille37# &lt;cyrille37&#064gmail.com&gt; - identified problem with 
					BigInteger.ModInverse for negative values.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>David Reis Jr &lt;davidreis&#064yahoo.com&gt; - bug fix for X509CrlStoreSelector 
					handling of NextUpdate, fix handling of null parameters for DSA in key 
					factories, initial port of Pkix namespace and supporting tests.
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			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Ivan Peev &lt;ivan.peev&#064cozyroc.com&gt; - bug fix for version string 
					displayed in PGP armored output.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Hector Ornelas Aciga &lt;hector.ornelas&#064sat.gob.mx&gt; - patch to add support for PKCS#5 Scheme 2 keys.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Tom Van Holle &lt;tvh&#064dsoft.be&gt; - patch to add new class: Pkcs10CertificationRequestDelaySigned.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Kalev Lember &lt;kalev&#064smartlink.ee&gt; - patch to fix compilation problem under Mono 2.8+.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Kyle Hamilton &lt;kyanha.bouncycastle&#064kyanha.net&gt; - identified problem with BigInteger.Multiply, patch for MiscPemGenerator infinite recursion,
                proposed improvements in use of random numbers.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Atanas Krachev &lt;akrachev&#064gmail.com&gt; - added support for revocation signatures in OpenPGP.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Torsten Moschny &lt;t.moschny&#064web.de&gt; - identified problem where PrivateKeyFactory/PublicKeyFactory failed to preserve publicKeyParamSet for EC keys.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Thomas Heggelund &lt;the&#064dips.no&gt; - identified problem with RSAParameters fields requiring zero-byte padding to satisfy .NET.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Laszlo Magyar &lt;lmagyar1973&#064gmail.com&gt; - patch to fix problem with SubjectDirectoryAttributes constructor.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Tim Whittington (https://github.com/timw) - ports of ChaCha, GMAC, Memoable, Poly1305, Skein, SM3, Threefish, XSalsa20. Registerised Salsa20 core.</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Oscar Jacobsson (https://github.com/OscarAyoy) - patch to fix DerEnumerated constructor (including test coverage).</p>
			</li>
			<li>
				<p>Michael Krueger &lt;michael.krueger&#064secardeo.com&gt; - patch to fix Asn1.Cmp.RevDetails constructor.</p>
			</li>
            <li>
                <p>Daniel Nauck &lt;daniel.nauck&#064gmail.com&gt; - patch for Portable Class Library support.</p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>John Allberg &lt;john&#064ayoy.se&gt; - improvements to Portable Class Library patch.</p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>Nicolas Dorier (https://github.com/NicolasDorier) - patch to fix culture-dependent lookups in MacUtilities.</p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>Artem Storozhuk &lt;storojs72&#064gmail.com&gt; - initial implementation of DSTU7564 (digest) and DSTU7624 (cipher) and their associated modes.</p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>bkalakrishnan (https://github.com/bkalakrishnan) - reported issue with SecureRandom.NextDouble and advised how to fix.</p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>fabiogermann (https://github.com/fabiogermann) - Mixed definiton support for OAEPwithSHA256andMGF1withSHA1.</p>
            </li>
	    <li>
		<p>Alexander Irrgang (https://github.com/alexander-irrgang) - ISignatureFactory usage improvements in X.509 Attribute Certificate generation.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
                <p>Claire Novotny (https://github.com/clairernovotny) - developed and maintained a fork supporting Portable Class Library, worked closely with us to integrate the changes back into the main project.</p>
            </li>
	    <li>
                <p>doomkin (https://github.com/doomkin) - contribution to netocreapp2.0 project files, PrivateKeyFactory cast fixes, contributions on GOST R 3410-2012.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
                <p>Jim Schaad (https://github.com/jimsch) - Initial work on raw Public Keys.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
                <p>ROM-Knowledgeware (https://github.com/ROM-Knowledgeware) - initial CMSSignedDataGenerator DER improvements, .csproj file contributions.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li> 
	        <p>ZZMarquis (https://github.com/ZZMarquis) - SM2Engine offset fixes, contributions to porting SM4.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li> 
	        <p>Devvox93 (https://github.com/Devvox93) - initial work on plain ECDSA support.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>alextolp (https://github.com/alextolp) - cleanup of Pkcs10CertificationRequest.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>agpreynolds (https://github.com/agpreynolds) - constructor patch for PollRepContent.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>setycz (https://github.com/setycz) - documentation updates.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>abcsxl (https://github.com/abcsxl) - initial port of SM4Engine.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Timo Rothenpieler (https://github.com/TimoRoth) - offset fix for Ed25519.GetWnaf().</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Filippo Biondi (https://github.com/fedelippo) - RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters additions, improvements to CmsSignedDataGenerator, documentation updates.<p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>AlexPaskhin (https://github.com/AkexPaskhin) - Netcore migration work - early 1.9.0 Netcore NuGet artifact.<p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Christoph Hannebauer (https://github.com/bb-froggy) - static refactoring of some Utilities classes, addition of Microsoft Kerberos KeyPurposeID, improved code comments, Pkcs12 improvements and tests.<p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Kristian Rastrup (https://github.com/rastrup) - PkixCertPath otherCert list fix, encryotionAlg table fix in CmsSignedHelper, excludedCerts fix in PkixBuilderParameters, PssSigner constructor fix, type check fix in DHValidationParms, Arrays.ToString() start fix, improvements to ECPointTest.<p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
		<p>deniszykov (https://github.com/deniszykov) - TlsProtocol class improvements.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
		<p>fm-DmitryShyryayev (https://github.com/fm-DmitryShyryayev) - initial DTLS cancellation work.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
		<p>Liam Power (https://github.com/LiamPowerMatrikon) - initial pass at ChaCha20Poly1305.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Skamaev (https://github.com/Skamaev) - GOST 2012 algorithm lookups for CmsSignedHelper.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>AntonPlotnikov (https://github.com/AntonPlotnikov) - Additional support for GOST 2012 algorithm in CMS SignedData generation.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>RafikBeng (https://github.com/RafikBeng) - algorithms table correction in DefaultSignatureAlgorithmIdentifier.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Aaron Clauson (https://github.com/sipsorcery) - initial work on preventing DTLS handshake silent exception swallowing.</p>
	    </li>
            <li>
                <p>John Steel (https://github.com/BlackthornYugen) - contributed unit tests for NIST ECC.</p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <p>Nathan Douthit (https://github.com/ndouthit) - Null policy fix for TimeStampTokenGenerator</p>
            </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Kangyuan Niu (https://github.com/niuk) - GCM reset in DTLS, initial work on ignoring corrupt records in DTLS.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>glebka-kozlov (https://github.com/glebka-kozlov) - further algorithm handling for GOST 2012.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
	        <p>Jakub Jatczak (https://github.com/JakubJatczak) - file name casing with class name unification fixes.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
		<p>Yari Melzani (https://github.com/iupsilon) - added OtherRevocationInfoFormat into CmsSigneData classes.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
		<p>ylabade (https://github.com/ylabade) - DerOctetString null reference fix.</p>
	    </li>
	    <li>
		<p>Matthew Sitton (https://github.com/mdsitton) - Addition of missing ALPN Protocol names.</p>
	    </li>
        <li>
            <p>Jozef Gajdo&scaron; (https://github.com/harrison314) - Time constructor optimization, RevokedStatus fix, improved thread-safe singleton code (e.g. X509Certificate/X509Crl cached encoding), SubjectPublicKeyInfo support in OpenSsl.PemWriter, fixed PSS raw signing over spans.</p>
        </li>
		<li>
			<p>Ben Adams (https://github.com/benaadams) - Performance optimization for AES-NI.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Daniel Bleichenbacher - Fixed rounding issue in FF1. Reported incompatible RFC 3394 wrapping of 64 bit keys.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Patrick (https://github.com/patagonaa) - Initial PR for DTLS Connection ID support (RFC 9146). Fixed NPE in connection ID code. PR to make DTLS initial resend timeout configurable.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Anh Vo (https://github.com/anhvoms) - Ported OpenSSH utilities from bc-java.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Arman Gungor (https://github.com/gungora) - Fixed SignerId.Equals.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Scott Xu (https://github.com/scott-xu) - Fixed exception message.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Triton (https://github.com/EnigmaTriton) - Improvements in PbeUtilities.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Rob Hague (https://github.com/Rob-Hague) - Embed Picnic and Sike data in source to make it trim-friendly.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Fabrizio Tarizzo (https://github.com/roughconsensusandrunningcode) - Ported Argon2 from bc-java.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>zer0x64 (https://github.com/zer0x64) - Performance optimizations for Argon2.</p>
		</li>
		<li>
			<p>Timothy Makkison (https://github.com/TimothyMakkison) - X86 intrinsics implementation for Blake2.</p>
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